Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communities where the early Catholic influence has survived (New Orleans. Mobile), the community's annual civic celebration takes place just before Lent and is called Mardi Gras. In the central grain-&-pumpkin belt the organized merrymaking is scheduled to occur just after harvest time, when farmers used to have money enough to go to town and buy. Last week the chief cities in two big Western States were the scenes of such affairs...
...Germanic Museum is being shown in the first exhibition of the season, the Florence Dibell Bartlett collection of Swedish Wall Paintings, which is lent by the Art Institute of Chicago...
...Capitol, the $150,000 executive mansion, the State University's $1,500,000 School of Medicine at New Orleans. Thanks to him, twelve new bridges are about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods...
...born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea of slum clearance with Federal funds on a self-amortizing basis. Thus it came about that Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s $1,500,000,000 new capital voted late in June was made available for replacing dark, filthy, unsanitary city stink-holes with...
...elements of the case easily lent themselves to burlesque. Mrs. Pollak, who wore her long bobbed hair curled at the ends Garbo-wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...